Editing Aleppo (section)

===Ecclesiastical history===
[[File:Aleppo Citadel 10 - Mosque of Abraham.jpg|thumb|The Mosque of Abraham in the Citadel of Aleppo, originally built by the Byzantines as a church]]
The names of several bishops of the [[episcopal see]] of Beroea, which was in the [[Roman province]] of [[Syria Prima]], are recorded in extant documents. The first whose name survives is that of Saint [[Eustathius of Antioch]], who, after being bishop of Beroea, was transferred to the important [[metropolitan see]] of [[Patriarch of Antioch|Antioch]] shortly before the 325 [[First Council of Nicaea]]. His successor in Beroea Cyrus was for his fidelity to the Nicene faith sent into exile by the [[Roman Emperor]] [[Constantius II]]. After the [[Council of Seleucia]] of 359, called by Constantius, [[Meletius of Antioch]] was transferred from [[Sivas|Sebastea]] to Beroea but in the following year was promoted to Antioch. His successor in Beroea, Anatolius, was at a council in Antioch in 363. Under the persecuting Emperor [[Valens]], the bishop of Beroea was Theodotus, a friend of [[Basil the Great]]. He was succeeded by [[Acacius of Beroea]], who governed the see for over 50 years and was at the [[First Council of Constantinople]] in 381 and the [[Council of Ephesus]] in 431. In 438, he was succeeded by Theoctistus, who participated in the [[Council of Chalcedon]] in 451 and was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of the province of Syria Prima sent in 458 to Emperor [[Leo I the Thracian]] about the murder of [[Proterius of Alexandria]]. In 518, Emperor [[Justin I]] exiled the bishop of Beroea Antoninus for rejecting the Council of Chalcedon. The last known bishop of the see is Megas, who was at a synod called by [[Patriarch Menas of Constantinople]] in 536.<ref>Michel Lequien, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_86weAemI-e4C ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010052512/https://books.google.com/books?id=86weAemI-e4C |date=10 October 2017 }}, Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 781–786</ref><ref>Raymond Janin, v. ''2. Berrhée'' in [http://booksnow.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca2/4/dictionnairedhis08bauduoft/dictionnairedhis08bauduoft.pdf ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029010330/http://booksnow.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca2/4/dictionnairedhis08bauduoft/dictionnairedhis08bauduoft.pdf |date=29 October 2019 }}, vol. VIII, 1935, coll. 887–888</ref> After the Arab conquest, Beroea ceased to be a residential bishopric, and is today listed by the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic Church]] as a [[titular see]].<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 848</ref>

Very few physical remains have been found from the Roman and Byzantine periods in the Citadel of Aleppo. The two mosques inside the Citadel are known to have been converted by the [[Mirdasid dynasty|Mirdasids]] during the 11th century from churches originally built by the Byzantines.<ref name="Julia1">Gonnela, 2008, pp. 12–13</ref>